Advertising device



May 25 1926. 1,586261` E. R. NABORS ADVERTISING pEvIcE Filed August 18 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet l May 25 1926. 1,586,261

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J2 .5,2 l` 46' ff Patented May 2.5, 1926.

vUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMERY B. NABOBS, OF BAN'ANTONIO, TEXAS, ASSIGNOB 0F ONE-HALF TO THOMAS E. BREED, Ol' Sg ANTONIO, TEXAS.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

Application led August 18, 1925. Serial No. 51,059.

This invention relates to advertising devices and has for one of its objects to provide a device of this character which will be simple in construction, comparatively inexpensive to manufacture and which will prove quite efficient in attracting attention.

A further object of the invention 1s to provide an advertising device embodying a toy airship or other analogous apparatus, which may be readily set up in a show window, for example, and which through various elements associated therewith will simulate a machine which it represents.

A still further object of the invention is to provide an advertising device of the character described which may be self propelled and which will also incorporate a toy machine gun, for example, as well as an electrically flashing sign.

With the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in the novel details of construction and combinations and arrangements of arts more fully, hereinafter described an particularly pointed out in the appended claims.A

Referring to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification in which like reference characters designate like parts in all the views; w

Fig. 1 is an elevational view of an advertising device constructed in accordance with the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a top lan view of the same;

Fig. 3 is a si e elevational view partly broken away, of the toy aeroplane illustrated in Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is an enlarged vertical sectional view through a portion of the supporting arm;

Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view taken approximately on the plane indicated by the line 5--5 of ig: 4; and,

Fig. 6 is an enlarged plan View of the rota circuit making and breaking apparatus Iibi' controlling certain of the electric circuits.

Referring more particularly to the said drawings, numeral 10 indicates any suitable ytrical current not shown.

support, as for example, a beam or plank which is provided with a hole 11`f extending therethrough and through which passes one end of a tubular supporting arm 12. The said arm 12 is rotatably mounted by means of anti-friction bearings 13 and 14, 55 in a pair of housing members 15 and 16 which are clamped on opposite sides of the support 10 by suitable clamping bolts 17. The tubular arm 12 has rigidly mounted upon it, a pair of contact rings 18 and 19 co which are electrically insulated from the4 said arm by the bushings or sleeves 20, which rings are adapted to be engaged by a pair of brushes, 21 and 22, carried by suitable brush holders 23 and 24, respectively, 55 mounted within the housing members 15 and 16. The brush holders 23 and 24 are respectively connected by means of wires 25 and 26 to any suitable source of elec- The other end of the tubular arm 12 is provided with a swivel connection 30 which carries a cross arm 31 which in turn carries a pair of vsmaller tubular members 32 which are preferabl curved substantially as shown in Fig. 2. hese curved members 32 in turn are connected in any suitable manner to the particular device selected for the advertising novelty, here shown as constituting a toy aeroplane 33.

-Within the fuselage of the plane there is mounted a small electric motor 34, the shaft 35 of which carries a suitable propeller 36 as will be clear from the drawings.

U on the top of the fuselage there is pref- 35 erab y provided a small replica of a machine Igun indicated by the numeral 37 and also a rearwardly extending tube or pipe 38 intended to simulate an exhaust pipe for eX- ample, of an aeroplane motor. The machine gun 37 is provided with a small electric lamp 39 which is adapted to be flashed on and olf alternately by the 'circuit making and breaking apparatus, to be later described, and the said tube 38 is likewise rovided 95 with one or more such lamps 40, w ich are also controlled by the circuit making and breaking apparatus. The side walls of the aeroplane fuselage are also preferably perforated as indicated at 41, the perforations taking the form of letters constituting a sign, which letters are also illuminated by suitable lamps 42, likewise controlled bythe circuit making and breaking apparatus.

The contact ring 18 above described is electrically connected to a conductor wire 45 which may constitute a common feed wire for the motor 34 and for the various electric lamps above described. In like manner the contact ring 19 has connected to it, a wire 46 which serves as a common return wire for the various electric devices.

The circuit-making and breaking apparatus above referred to is preferably of the rotary type and is somewhat similar to the usual drum commutator, in that it comprises a disc or member 50 of insulating material, the outer circumference of which has set into it a plurality of conducting bars or segments 51, each of which-is connectedby a wire or conductor 52 with the wire 45, which as was above mentioned, constitutes a common feed wire for the various devices. Av

pair of b rush members 53 and 54 are suitablymounted upon the housing member 15 and engage the circumference of the disc member 50, sliding thereon, as the latter is rotated, whereby they are alternately made to contact with the conducting segments 51 and the insulating portion between said segments, as will be readily understood from Fig. 6. The brush 53 is connected by the wire 55 to the light 39 in the machinegun 37, While the brush 54 is connected by a wire 56, to the lights in the exhaust tube and 42 in the fuselage, which latter lights serve to illuminate the sign letters 41. Each of these lights 39, 40 and 42 is connected by a.

' suitable wire to the common return wire 36 which will have the effect of driving the plane through the air in a circle, the arm 12 freely rotating upon the anti-friction bearings 13 and 14. During such rotation, the disc member 50 and the conducting segments 51 will be rotated past the rotating brush members 53 and 54, alternately making and breaking the circuits to the lights 39, 40 und 42, and causing them to flash in the well known manner. The fiashing of the light 39 will produce a good imitation of the tiring of a machine gun, while the flashing of the light 40 will simulate the exhaust of the aeroplane motor.

As shown in the drawings, the brushes 53 and 54 of the circuit maklng and brealn'ng device are diametrically opposed and since an even number of conducting segments has been illustrated the various lights 39, 40 and 42 will be illuminated and extinguished simultaneously. It will be obvious, however, that by shifting one of the brushes 53 or 54 a slight distance circumferentially so that it will rest upon an insulating portion while the companion brush rests upon a ,conducting segment, that the said lights may be caused to flash alternately instead of simultaneously. In like manner, the same result might be accomplished by making the number of conducting segments 51 odd instead of even.

For purposes of illustration only5an aeroplane has been shown in the drawings and it will be understood that any other suitable form of toy device, such for example as a dirigible, balloon, automobile, tank and the like might be substituted therefor, without departing from the scope of the invention.

lVhile one form of the invention has been illustrated and described, it is obvious that those skilled in the art may vary 'the details of constructon as well as the precise arrangements of parts without departing from the spirit of the invention, and therefore, it is not wished to be limited to the above disclosure, except as may be required by the claims.

What I claim is:

1. In an advertising device of the character described, a support; a housing carried by said support; a bent tubular arm rotatably mounted in said housing; insulated conductor rings carried by said arm within said housing; brush members carried by said housing engaging said rings; a toy device provided with a propelling motor, carried by said arm; electrical connections carried within said arm, between said rings and motor; .a plurality of sets of lamps carried by said toy device; an electrical circuit maker and breaker carried by said arm adapted to intermittently flash said sets of lamps; and

electrical connections, also carried within said arm, between said breaker and said sets of lamps.

2. In an advertising device of the character described a support;-a housing carried by said support; a bent tubular arm, one end of which is rotatably mounted in said housing; insulated conductor rings carried by said arm within said housing; brush members carried by said housing, engaging said rings; a, toy airship carrled by the other end-of said arm; an electric motor carried by said ship; a propeller actuated by said motor; electrical connections carried within said arm, between slid rings and 1,ase,ae1 B motor; a toy machine un provided with a ried b said arm and additional brushes carlamp, carried by said s `p; an exhaust pipe ried y said housing, for intermittently provided with a lamp, also carried by said ila said lamps; and electrical connec-l lo ship; characters constituting a sign, and a tions a carried within said arm, between 5 lamp for illuminating them, also carried by said breaker and said lamps.

said ship; an electrical circuit maker and In testimony whereof I aiix my signature.

breaker comprising a rotatable member car- EMERY R. NABORS. 

